Yesterday, an Occupy Wall Street protester named Cecily McMillan was convicted by a New York state…
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McMillan was facing up to seven years in prison for the incident. That maximum sentence was considered unduly harsh by many of observers, among them some of the jurors at her trial, who wrote to the judge to plead for leniency. Apparently, their pleas worked, sort of. McMillan herself told interviewers she was expecting 2 years.